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Using an old, used, all stamped mailing envelope could be the perfect way to make a folder pocket for your midori. Very easy to make and great for cool looking extra storage in you travel journal.

As shown in the picture above I´m using an envelope I received from Hong Kong a few years ago with pretty mailing stamps, the size is a little smaller than a letter size paper. What you’ll have to do is to measure your planner, in my case I´m measuring my own planner (found on my etsy shop) and doubling the size cut the bottom part to leave it open and get the right size. Now folded in half.

You´ll get something like this. An envelope side and an open side.

Using your sewing machine or if you are brave enough stitch it by hand, stitch that middle line you just fold. As shown below.

You´ll have something like this.

Now using some kraft tape or washi tape as you prefer, cover the edges of the open pocket to reinforce it.

This will make it strong and prevent it from tearing. Do not close the pocket just protect the edges leaving it open.

Now you can slip it under your insert.

And you are done!…you can go ahead and start decorating with memorabilia and whatever you want to put over your new envelope folder pocket thing.. haha.

I hope you´ve like this DIY, personally I loved it!.. it gives my journal a traveled vibe and is very practical to store lots of things. Give me like and a comment if you´ve liked it and you want to see more midori/fauxdori related post. 🙂

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Hi! I know it’s been 2 weeks since I last blogged, but my life has been really bussy, first my Birthday week and also my jewelry course whitch has been amazing! I can’t believe how much I been loving goldsmith and jewelry Design! Soon I’ll be postibg the beginings of my collection and my brand that I have had for more than 4 year’s! In the meantime Here is my first silver piece hand made By me! 🙂

This past week was very cool for me, because I finally join my jewelry course with my cousin and one of my best friends, we where expecting it to start for month and it finally did. This is the first contact I had with pure silver.. It´s so beautiful, so clean and shiny and it makes the sound of tiny bells. 🙂 This is almost 1000 dollars worth of silver.. Thank God I don´t have it with me anymore.. It is my entire classmates material! I so looking forward to learn everything about melting the silver and stuff.. wish me luck and i will show you more of the thing I´m doing in this class!

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When I saw this picture on pinterest I thought it was so pretty and elegant and remembered that I saw a similar Agate stone in a bazaar that I went (not sure if its agate or onyx), so I went back and bought it.. My first thought was to create the gold rimmed with gold leaf, but it was a bit expensive because I only found it in packages and not just a couple of sheets, then I found this paint called Liquid Gold (Rodin brand at Lumen store only in México) and I though this could work. Fingers Crossed! And it did! So follow this super super easy steps and you´ll get a perfect tray. Enjoy!

The first step is to clean very well your stone getting rid of any dust it might have, then with a fine brush apply the liquid gold all around the rimmed area carefully not to paint the flat surface of the stone. This type of paint dried so quickly so in a few minutes was ready!

Hi!.. today my DIY Gold Chevron Tray was featured on the page Career Bliss, last week Ritika Trikha writer of Career Bliss ask me if she could use my DIY for an article she was writing about Summer desk projects, and of course I said yes!..being a new blogger this is cool. I even felt weird when she wrote.. “Blogger Arely Perusquia”.. hahah this is so new to me! 🙂 So check the Article it has very cool ideas!

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This is a very quick make over, I turn this candle holder into a pretty pen holder.. And I loved it because it holds a lot of pens.. and it looks so cute with this funny owl. It only too a few minutes to paint and it was ready. 🙂

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The ombre style is one trendy word it is most know for hair graded coloring but we have seen int in almost everything, nails, fabric, etc. But this diy is so simple and stylish and specially fun, you are going to want to applying it in almost everything. First I was inspired by this pictures of spoons even though it doesn´t have to do anything with ombre it was the inspiration to purchase the spoons that I found on a dollar store.

You´ll start by spraying in one direction to avoid painting the part that you don´t what to paint. If you use painters tape you will get a line and that what we are avoiding, we are looking for the faded color. First you spray a broad space with a single coat and every additional coat that you spray you paint a smaller area. Once you have done one side of the spoon and it´s completely dry you flip it and paint the other side.

Then you have a beautiful set of dessert spoons of forks or any other item that you´ll like. It truly looks amazing in real life, and it´s so inexpensive and chic! 🙂 Let me now is you tried something similar.

This diy was something that I really wanted for some time, and when I saw this cheese candle stick, I thought I could turn that into a pretty cupcake stand. First of all I´m so not into skulls unless I´m in a anatomy drawing class or wearing an Alexander McQueen scarf hahahaha i wish! So this was for me a very ugly candle stick, besides I don´t even like halloween. So this was easy and fun to do and it only took my a few minutes to accomplish. The steps I did were unscrewing all the skulls that were in the candle stick, this picture only shows two but there use to be like 10 all around. After that I just cleaned it, paint it and that was it, I hope you like this diy, simple and pretty.